Icom had a portable rig about the size of a Braille n speak which had a
hand held microphone that produced 1 watt on 2 m ssb and also did fm.
It did not remain long in the market.  This was in the early to mid 1970
time frame.

Thank you!

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From: For blind ham radio operators
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Subject: Re: Is working 2 metre side band even possible with the TH-F6A?

To my knowledge, there are only a couple of HT's that have ever been  
produced that would do SSB. One was a line that was marketed by  
several companies in the U.S. and made by, I think, Mizuho (or  
something like that), another by Tokyo High Power, and finally,n HT  
sold as Santec LS-202. All of these are obscure, and none is made  
anymore, I don't think; if an SSB handheld *is* made, it isn't sold  
anywhere in North America. Too bad, really--I think it'd be kind of fun.


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